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  • Democrats Need to Make Republicans Fear the Consequences of Attempting a Dictatorship

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  • I'm not so sure they even want that at all. Simply because of their shameful behavior, while the US president acts like a goddamn Nazi (because he obviously is one, of course).

    But for all that, the Democrats have refused to allow even a little progressiveness in their ranks for years, against the wishes of their own voters.

    But hey, I don't know very much about all this because I'm from Germany.

    All I can say is that in our country - and this applies to larger parts Europe - Sanders, for example, would be a moderate center-left politician. What he is calling for is not at all radical in many parts of the world, but rather quite normal. Basic decency, so to speak...

  • China says there are no negotiations with the US over tariffs

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  • Yes, I very much hope so.

    Unfortunately, however, I fear that the situation for ordinary US citizens will have to get even worse. That seems to be the prerequisite for Drump's still frighteningly numerous followers to overcome the sect-like state of mind in which they live in thanks to their apparent lack of intellect and the deliberate misinformation by their own leader and all his greedy cronies.

    But yes: perhaps the collapse of the US standard of living, which I believe is inevitable due to this incompetent administration, will be able to perform this miracle.

    I think it is high time if anything is to be saved from total ruin.

  • Donald Trump’s approval rating drops lower than the ‘worst president in history,’ new poll shows

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  • Donald Trump’s approval rating drops lower than the ‘worst president in history,’ new poll shows

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  • Well, he is the worst president in US-history...

  • China says there are no negotiations with the US over tariffs

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  • Then things will soon get very tough, especially for ordinary US citizens and the socially disadvantaged in particular. Trump's idiotic power games are largely at the expense of US citizens.

    This is already evident from the fact that his import tariffs are in principle nothing more than a massive VAT increase.

  • International students stripped of legal status in the US are piling up wins in court

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  • At the same time, the emigration of intelligent people is piling up.

  • ‘See how this works?’: Trump drops cases against corporations that funded his inauguration

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  • This is what a failed state does.

  • Trump Has Exposed the Fragility of the Global Dollar System

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  • Oh, absolutely. I am totally convinced that Trump's main goal is to line his own pockets and those of his criminal friends.

    I was merely trying to reflect what Trump's official plan is - especially in light of the fact that the US economy actually does have some problems. These include among other things steadily rising interest payments to creditors and the strong dollar, which has very obviously been at odds with weakening industrial production for quite some time.

    However, the Mar-a-Lago Accord (not an accord yet by the way but merely a strategy paper) was drawn up by his main economist, Miran. This guy is apparently convinced that the problems that the US economy has could be solved in this way.

    But still: even if Trump wasn't a criminal who is only interested in his own advantage, I still don't think his economist's plan could work. Even without Trump, this would be pretty absurd. But with Trump I think it is impossible, because this moron even makes it worse - for example by not introducing the tariffs gradually as planned, but immediately at the maximum percentage (prolly to make more on insider trading). This is disastrous even in the context of this already crazy plan.

    So in short, Trump's economists want to fundamentally reshape the global economy (by pure force) with a pretty absurd plan - but Trump's greed and stupidity makes it even less likely that this could ever work.

    Oh, and: In any case, all of this is very much at the expense of US citizens - except for the usual 1 percent, of course.

    Edit: Probably a misunderstanding: I didn't mean that you were wrong about Trump jeopardizing the long-term prosperity of the US economy - I completely agree with you. I just wanted to say that the US economy was indeed already fragile before him, but that's not because of Biden, but because of a long-term development that led there.

  • Trump Has Exposed the Fragility of the Global Dollar System

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  • I think you're wrong: the problem in the US is that the dollar is far too strong in relation to industrial output. The reason for this is that it is bought by other nations as a reserve currency through US government bonds.

    This is a major problem for the US industry, which is nowhere near as strong as the strength of the currency would suggest. The problem is that a disproportionately strong dollar makes US products so expensive on the global market that they are barely competitive.

    Trump's plan (described in the so-called "Mar-a-Lago Accord") now envisages forcing the partner states in particular, all of which are creditors of the USA, to suspend their claims (basically as if it were a national bankruptcy).

    The only two explanations for this behavior I can come up with are: Either the US is actually bankrupt and Trump is trying to forestall the inevitable, or he is trying to impose an economic system on the world that favors the US even more than it already does, in an excess of hubris.

    Either way: I believe that neither of the "solutions" for these two scenarios are realistically feasible with this plan. And I also don't think that the Fed will go along with this, without which Trump cannot implement this plan - but he can't force the Fed to play along either because he has no direct control over this institution as it is independent of the state administration.

  • Donald Trump raised nearly $240 million for his inauguration — more than double the previous record, new filings show | CNN Politics

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  • Good regulation, very transparent, what could go wrong

  • Trump Has Exposed the Fragility of the Global Dollar System

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  • Trump Has Exposed Exploited the Fragility of the Global Dollar System

  • Donald Trump raised nearly $240 million for his inauguration — more than double the previous record, new filings show | CNN Politics

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  • Can we see the invoices showing what those $240 million were supposedly spent on?

  • Amy Klobuchar calls on supreme court to hold Trump officials in contempt

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  • Was it not this so-called Supreme Court that has already granted the president more rights than a king? How is that supposed to be constitutional in a democratic country?

    It seems to me that the constitutional crisis has long since occurred.

    I don't really understand why anyone should appeal to the corrupt judges who are responsible for this. It's a waste of time, because the outcome of all such attempts is already known in advance.

    Or is the plan to buy Thomas & Co. another nice house - or maybe a new boat, or yet another luxurious vacation?

  • Where can I get news about today's 50501 protests? There seems to be frighteningly little news about this in the mainstream media.

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  • Where can I get news about today's 50501 protests? There seems to be frighteningly little news about this in the mainstream media.

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  • Do you have a very good print regional newspaper or are you saying that these protests are not worth real-time coverage?

  • Where can I get news about today's 50501 protests? There seems to be frighteningly little news about this in the mainstream media.

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  • Do you think reddit is immune to the oligarchs? I don't think so at all.

    Edit: What I'm saying is: post here rather than on reddit. There are no current updates in the Lemmy community. And I'm assuming that the discussion is taking place on reddit because everyone is somehow still there. Why is that? Why is everyone still there when it's clear as day that reddit is so rotten that Aaron Swartz would roll over in his grave if he had to witness that.

  • Where can I get news about today's 50501 protests? There seems to be frighteningly little news about this in the mainstream media.

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  • That helps me a lot. Thank you very much.

  • Where can I get news about today's 50501 protests? There seems to be frighteningly little news about this in the mainstream media.

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  • Thousands of demonstrators rallied at hundreds of events on Saturday (...)

    Thousands? Were there just 100 protestors at 100 events? That would be already 10,000...WTF...

    Edit: If this is true (thousands in Portland alone) - and why wouldn't it be - it's a massive understatement by the New York Times...and this is prolly one of the few more or less independent/somewhat objective outlets left. C'mon...

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  • You saw the movie and missed that it's a satire? Are you serious?

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  • Have you seen Starship Troopers?